Social Science audiobooks

Work Therapy: Or The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life

By: Naomi Shragai

Narrated by: Naomi Shragai

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Previously published as The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life, 2021.

'Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an... Read more

Pasión por la ignorancia

By: Renata Salecl

Narrated by: Cecilia Bona

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

El concepto de ignorancia necesita ser reevaluado, porque estamos atravesando un cambio revolucionario en la naturaleza del conocimiento. El desarrollo de la genética, la neurociencia y el big data ha cambiado la manera en que entendemos lo que puede conocerse sobre una persona. Los nuevos tipos de información traen aparejadas nuevas angustias,... Read more

This Won't Hurt

By: Marieke Bigg

Narrated by: Daphne Kouma

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research - and how to change it.

The idea that medicine is gender-neutral is a myth. This isn't inflammatory rhetoric; it's simply true. From the way pain is felt, to how heart attacks are diagnosed, to the very role society plays in the health of the body, the medical... Read more

Everyday War

By: Greta Lynn Uehling

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war.What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus... Read more

No Pasaran

By: Shane Burley

Narrated by: Zach Bergman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Essays written by a who's who of antifascist researchers, including Tal Lavin (Culture Warlords); Kim Kelly (Fight Like Hell), Geo Maher (A World Without Police), Hilary A. Moore (No Fascist USA!), and Daryle Lamont Jenkins (One People's Project).

¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy... Read more

Dinero sucio

By: Tom Burgis

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay dos mundos que coexisten gracias a la fuerza de lo secreto: uno ficticio, en el que los gobiernos intentan defender los valores de los ciudadanos y los derechos democráticos, y otro real, en el que se mezclan los intereses del Estado y de las élites económicas. Esta obra es una ventana al mundo real, aquel en que los políticos y los... Read more

Liberated To the Bone

By: Susan Raffo

Narrated by: Kitty Sipple

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A way to deepen our understanding of the relationship between social justice and the work of healing—healing as individuals, communities, and societies.

The newest title in the Emergent Strategy Series, Liberated to the Bone, addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations which are shaped by... Read more

Journey without End

By: Andrew Nelson & Rob Curran

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes an engrossing, sometimes surreal, narrative-driven critique of how... Read more

True Crime Philadelphia

By: Kathryn Canavan

Narrated by: Melissa Redmond

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Serial killer H. H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. America's first bank robbery was pulled off here in 1798. The country's first kidnapping for ransom came off without a hitch in 1874. A South Philadelphia man hatched the largest mass murder plot... Read more

Mistakes and Miracles

By: Nancy Palmer Jones & Karin Lin

Narrated by: Julie Cleburn, Karin Lin & Nancy Palmer Jones

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What calls Unitarian Universalists to create multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community? What do congregations need when they embark on this journey? What common threads run through their stories? Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin—a white minister and a lay person of color—share how five diverse congregations encounter frustrations and... Read more

The 21

By: Martin Mosebach

Narrated by: Creative Orthodox

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.

In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach.

In the West, daily reports of new... Read more

Detransition

By: Max Robinson

Narrated by: Claire Ryan

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

I experienced my transition as a form of resistance, but in reality it only affirmed the same stereotypes that had done me harm to begin with. Trying to prevent myself from committing suicide by becoming less recognizably female was an attempt at resistance that, politically, functioned in many ways as a form of capitulation.Many feminists are... Read more

Dyscalculia

By: Camonghne Felix

Narrated by: Camonghne Felix

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powerful . . . a poetic meditation on how love or attempts at loving can drive us to madness.”—The Boston Globe
 
“We learn about the cracks in Felix’s upbringing, the hurt from the breakup itself, and a pain that spans a lifetime, all through a sharp millennial voice.”—Time

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, Chicago Public Library, Electric... Read more

On Being Unreasonable

By: Kirsty Sedgman

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Manners, order and respect... these are all ideals we subscribe to. In opposed positions, we ought to be able to 'agree to disagree'. Today's world is built from structures of standards and reason, but it is imperative to ask who constructed these norms, and why. We are more divided than ever before-along lines of race, gender, class,... Read more

Seeing Like A Feminist

By: Nivedita Menon

Narrated by: Pallavi Bharti

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENSFor Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. From sexual harassment charges against international figures to the challenge that caste politics poses to feminism, from the... Read more

The American Way

By: Helene Stapinski & Bonnie Siegler

Narrated by: Bonnie Siegler

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “necessary and beautifully told story of struggle, compassion and serendipity” (Forbes), the publisher of DC Comics comes to the rescue of a family trying to flee Nazi Berlin, their lives linking up with a dazzling cast of 20th-century icons, all eagerly pursuing the American Dream.

Family lore had it that Bonnie Siegler’s grandfather... Read more

We the Scientists

By: Amy Dockser Marcus

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s moving narrative of a group of patient advocates who are revolutionizing the way medical research is conducted.

For more than half a century, medical advances have been driven by investigators launching experiments inside labs. Science is often conducted in isolation and geared toward the long view. This is... Read more

The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths

By: William Hansen

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic anthology now available on audio With narration by Kristin Atherton, who presents the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh—these are just some of the... Read more

Wofür wir arbeiten - Auf dem Punkt (Ungekürzt)

By: Barbara Prainsack

Narrated by: Luise Georgi

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie wollen und werden wir zukünftig arbeiten? Die tradierten Modelle funktionieren nicht mehr: Während die einen von ihrer Erwerbsarbeit kaum leben können, leiden viele Bereiche unter Arbeits- und Fachkräftemangel. Arbeit ist zudem eine Frage der Solidarität: Der Applaus für "systemrelevante Berufe" war von kurzer Dauer, die Care-Arbeit - vor... Read more

Alles und nichts sagen - Vom Zustand der Debatte in der Digitalmoderne (ungekürzt)

By: Eva Menasse

Narrated by: Eva Menasse

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Zieht sich eine liberale Gesellschaft gerade den Boden weg, auf dem sie fest stehen sollte? Ein Essay darüber, was die digitale Massenkommunikation zwischenmenschlich anrichtet. Nichts hat das Zusammenleben so umfassend verändert wie die Digitalisierung - wir denken, fühlen und streiten anders, seit wir dauervernetzt und überinformiert sind.... Read more

الغلامة

By: عالية ممدوح

Narrated by: صوفيا حجازين

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

«اللهم ضع هؤلاء وأولئك أمامي، بالمفرد والجمع: بالمشايخ وذوي الأبدان الضعيفة والسخيفة والخفيفة؛ موظفي الدولة، العمداء والمدراء، رجال الدعة والأطايب والنياشين وذوي القربى وأبناء آوى والخال، والذي يحذو حذوهم، أولئك الواقفين في الباب: الشرطة، الأطباء، الرياضيين، الممثلين، رجال الأعمال، وأصحاب الحرف المؤقتة والأمزجة الباردة والفاترة واليائسة، خصوصًا... Read more

Dealing With Doubts in Islam

By: The Sincere Seeker Collection

Narrated by: Austin Vanfleet

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the Truth: Addressing Doubts and Common Misconceptions About Islam to Strengthen Your FaithAre you struggling with doubts about Islam or hesitant to convert because of lingering questions? It's completely natural to have doubts and to question your beliefs about God and Islam. Islam encourages those with doubts to seek knowledge and... Read more

Viracocha: The History and Legacy of the Inca’s Creator God

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the Inca’s oral traditions suggested that the history of the region began with their empire, the various gods and the religious ceremonies of the peoples that inhabited the Inca’s lands before their arrival were assimilated into the Inca Empire and were incorporated into Inca religion. However, under Inca rule, all those gods were to... Read more

At Work in the Ruins

By: Dougald Hine

Narrated by: Dougald Hine

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books yet written about the multiple intersecting crises that are now upending our once-familiar world. . . Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement Dougald Hine, author and social thinker, has spent most of his life talking to people about... Read more